Month: August 2026

Kerala State Farm Awards announced, Cheruvayal Raman wins first Oommen Chandy memorial award for contributions to farm sector

August 10, 2026 admin

Cheruvayal Raman | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Cheruvayal K. Raman, popularly known as the ‘guardian of native paddy,’ has been selected for the first Oommen Chandy memorial award for outstanding contributions to Kerala’s farm sector. Agriculture Minister T. Siddique announced his name while announcing the 2025 Kerala State Farm Awards in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday (August…

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Pant —an enigma at the crossroads

August 10, 2026 admin

When we talk one-format India internationals in the current milieu, almost all the focus is on India’s two immediate all-format past skippers. Since May 2025, when they bid adieu to Test cricket within weeks of each other, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli play for the country only in One-Day Internationals, having already announced their retirement…

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A flood of woes in Assam

August 10, 2026 admin

Tamuli Gaon, a village in eastern Assam’s Jorhat district, is about 40 kilometres west of neighbouring Sivasagar district’s Bihubar, the epicentre of destruction by one of Assam’s worst localised floods since the 1950s. The gushing waters that submerged much of Sivasagar and adjoining Charaideo districts on July 19–20 lost momentum by the time they reached the…

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Russia says it captures two villages in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv reports frontline battles

August 9, 2026 admin

Russian forces have taken control of the two villages in Ukraine’s eastern ‌Donetsk region, state-run RIA news agency reported on Sunday (August 9, 2026), citing the Russian ⁠Defence Ministry. The ministry report on Telegram said Russian forces had seized Vasyutinske, a few kilometers east of ‌the “fortress city” of Kramatorsk, and Toretsk, southwest of the…

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Trump announces staff secretary Will Scharf will be his new White House counsel

August 9, 2026 admin

White House staff secretary Will Scharf speaks during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, on August 6, 2026, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday (August 9, 2026) that his new White House counsel will be Will Scharf, the staff secretary…

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Several injured in Denmark in suspected underworld shooting: police

August 9, 2026 admin

Several people were wounded on Sunday (August 9, 2026) in a shooting in Denmark that police believed was linked to a settling of scores among criminals. Police said in a statement they were present at several locations in Holbaek, about 70 km west of Copenhagen, following “a shooting in which multiple people have been hit”….

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Israeli military closes Palestinian Christian village Taybeh, citing settler attacks

August 9, 2026 admin

Israeli settlers put out a fire by a settler outpost, near the Palestinian town Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on July 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s military on Sunday (August 9, 2026) closed the West Bank village of Taybeh to non-residents, saying it aimed to prevent growing ‌attacks on Palestinians by Israeli…

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Pushing One Health approach, U.P. priorities early identification and reporting of emerging zoonotic diseases

August 9, 2026 admin

Uttar Pradesh Animal Husbandry department on Sunday (August 9, 2026) said it is strengthening the capacity for early identification and reporting of emerging zoonotic diseases, surveillance systems, laboratory strengthening, outbreak preparedness, pushing the One Health approach framework. “Recently, the Animal Husbandry Department developed a Compendium for Veterinarians on Zoonotic & Priority Animal Diseases,. The compendium…

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Maharashtra FDA to introduce end-to-end traceability of milk to fight adulteration

August 9, 2026 admin

Food and Drugs Authority commissioner Tukaram Mundhe. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini In a bid to arrest the frequent and recurring incidents of milk adulteration in Maharashtra, the State’s Food and Drug Administration has planned a massive digitisation initiative for end-to-end traceability of milk. The project intends to digitise milking records and link them to…

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BSP president Mayawati opposes ‘creamy layer’ idea for SCs, STs, hits out at RSS

August 9, 2026 admin

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Sunday opposed the ‘creamy layer’ concept in reservations for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), arguing that affirmative action was linked to their social transformation, economic emancipation and self-respect and criticised the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh…

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